St. Landry democrat., 1887-04-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAIs
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSIONER
! COOLEY left Chicago on the Goth for Wash
! ington.
WHILE duck-hunting at Musllegon lake,
| north of Wabash, Ind. on the 2Sth, gun
in the hands of E. S. Moon was accidental
| ly discharged, the load entering William
| Walton's head and killing him instantly.
| Walton was son of one Of the best
| known pioneers Of Northern Indiana.
Moon is crazed with grief over the affair.
THE jury in the case OF Alexand er
Goldenson, at San Francisco, charged with
the murder of a school girl, Mamie Kelly,
| November 10, 1886, returned verdict on
the 2Sth of murder in the first degree
| CHARLES FRooCH, policy examiner for
the Allegheny Insurance Company of
| Pittsburgh, Pa, entered the safe in the
| Office on the morning of the 18th, and,
| seating himself in chair, shot himself
| through the head. He was found an hour
| later quite dead. He had been in the COM
pany's employ Gig hteen years.
TROY, n. Y, suffered hundred thous-
| and dollar fire on the Goth.
FATHERS Ryan and Slattery were lod ged
| in Kilmainham Jail. Dublin, on the goth.
| PRESIDENT CLEVELAND will appoint no
more judges over fifty years of age.
| THE National Builders Association held
its annual meeting at Chicago on the 29th.
A GRASDDAUGHTER Of Daniel O'Connell,
| the Irish liberator, died on the .Sth at st.
Johns, Newfoundland.
| THE building trades at Chicago are try
ing to consolidate into general organiza-
| ton.
j. FINLEY HoKE, the embezzler, was ar
raigned for forgery at PEORIA ILL.,, on the
Goth, and pleaded not guilty
Mrs. JAMES BRowN-PoTTER made her
debut at the Haymarket Theater, London,
on the goth in Wilkie Collins sMan and
Wife, before large audience, the Prince
| of Wales and Minister and Mrs. Phelps
being among the number. The lady was
| fairly successful, but some of the critics
think her unwise in the choice her play.
| RELATIONS are again reported to be
strained between Secretary Endicott and
General Sheridan concerning the appoint
ment powers of the latter.
THE probable appointees on the Pacific
Railway Commission are Ex-Governor
Albeit of New Jersey, General E. S.
Bragg, of Wisconsin, and David I. Littler,
of Springfield, Ill.
THE Canadian Government is preparing
to have the country on the Alaskan
| frontier thoroughly explored. Rich gold
mines are among the newly reported dis
! coveries.
Mrs. RosASNA DENNIS died nearly sew
enteen years ago at Titfin, o. On the Goth
her remains were found to be petritied
into flinty limestone by parties who disin-
| tered them for burial elsewhere.
IT has been decided by the Postmaster
General, on the advice of Attorney-Gen-
eral Garland, that passes over railroads
to Government postal employees, in the
discharge of their duty, are not prohibited
! by the Interstate Commerce law.
THE Pennsylvania railroad has been
running local passenger traffic between
New Brunswick, N. j., and Jersey City
| for the past few days in cars heated by
! steam from the locomotive.
/ CITY MARSHAL WHITNEY Of Bangor,
Me-, has received dispatch from Oak
| land, Cal, announcing the arrest of CAL
| vim Graves, the murderer Of game ward
ems Hill and Niles at Fletchers brook last
fall.
| ALFRED SMITH, convicted of murder in
| the second degree, at Cleveland, O., was
| sentenced on the goth to the penitentiary
for life. A smile overcame his face as the
Judge pronounced the decree of the court.
SPEECHES on the Irish Crimes bill were
made in the British House of Commons
on the 29th by Gladstone and Goschen
A SUIT has been started by certain Bull
| garians to recover money loaned Prince
Alexander to go TO his German home on
| at the time he was forced to abdicate.
JAMES r. JORDAN, who has been APP
pointed United States marshal for the
| Western district of Virginia, will be the
youngest person holding, and probably
ever appointed to that position, being
only twenty seven years Of age. He is a
son of Colonel w. J. Jordan, of Newborn,
Va. and member of and secretary to the
| Democratic committee of the Ninth Con-
gressional district.
THE will of the late Captain James B.
Eads was probated at New York on the
Both.
ANOTHER attempt is said to ha re been
m ade to assassinate the Car of Russia on
the goth.
| JAKE KILRAIN, in a modest interview,
| announces his willingness to fight Sulli-
| van.
1T is understood that a United States
Minister to Austria is to be appointed in
the near future.
DISTRESS. bordering on starvation, is
reported to exist in portions of Newfound-
land.
| INVESTIGATIONS made by the GOVERN
ment show an alarming state Of facts re-
garding lood authorizations.
MARISo LEYRA, the notorious leader of
border bandits, has been slain in New
| Mexico.
| THE Russian Nih1lists have killed a
wealthy Russian merchant and are threat
enlng other capitalists with death if
money is not forthcoming for the ''com-
mon cause"
COLONEL E. C. MORE, Consul-G eneral to
Mexico, paid his respects to the President
and Secretary Bayard on the Both.
M. EUGENE SPULLER has been elected
vice-president by the French Chamber of
Deputies The indications for a minis
terial crisis are becoming more pro-
nounced and numerous.
| THE Connecticut Senate on the Both, by
a vote of 20 to 3, passed the Ten-Hour
| law for women and children, already